>I am seeing an odd failure of initdb.exe (postgres 8.0.1) on >windows that >I have not encountered before. The output from initdb is: > >The database cluster will be initialized with locale C. > >creating directory D:/E-NetAware-Data/db ... ok >creating directory D:/E-NetAware-Data/db/global ... ok >creating directory D:/E-NetAware-Data/db/pg_xlog ... ok >creating directory D:/E-NetAware-Data/db/pg_xlog/archive_status ... ok >creating directory D:/E-NetAware-Data/db/pg_clog ... ok >creating directory D:/E-NetAware-Data/db/pg_subtrans ... ok >creating directory D:/E-NetAware-Data/db/base ... ok >creating directory D:/E-NetAware-Data/db/base/1 ... ok >creating directory D:/E-NetAware-Data/db/pg_tblspc ... ok >selecting default max_connections ... 10 >selecting default shared_buffers ... 50 >creating configuration files ... ok >creating template database in D:/E-NetAware-Data/db/base/1 ... FATAL: >could not create shared memory segment: No such file or directory >DETAIL: Failed system call was shmget(key=1, size=1163264, 03600). >child process was terminated by signal 1 >initdb: failed >initdb: removing data directory "D:/E-NetAware-Data/db"
Are you by any chance running this through terminal services? This looks just like the error message you get if you try that. //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
